Chapter 252: General Attack
After nightfall, all kinds of boats on the water of the rooster crow shuttle back and forth, and there are constantly people who fall into the water are rescued on the boat, and those large ships trapped in the rooster crow waterway, at this time after the sailors on the boat continue to clean up, the fishing nets have been cleared, and the power is restored, Li Quanjun on these boats are all disarmed, and then escorted to the shore, handed over to the people on the shore to guard, Li Quan lost a lot of money this time, nearly 8,000 water infantry will be wiped out in this battle, Dozens of warships of various types also became the trophies of the Song army, only a few were burned or sunk, and there were almost no ships that escaped ascension, because even if they broke away from the battlefield and ran back to the waterway to Hongze Lake, they were still blocked and captured by the Song ships in ambush here. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Less than 200 of the 8,000 people fled the battlefield, of which Jiang Tong was one, after Jiang Tong jumped ship, he dived all the way to avoid the search and arrest of the Song army, panicked like a lost dog, fled all the way to the shore, made up again, and fled all the way back to Chuzhou.
After the news of the victory of Wang Quan's water army reached the Song army camp outside Baoying County, the Song army was all rejoicing, morale was greatly boosted, Gao Huaiyuan was also greatly excited to hear the news, it seems that this time with the water army together did not do anything wrong, otherwise, they besieged Baoying County here, if suddenly the back was raided by Li Quan's water army, the possibility of defeat in this battle is very large, the water army sailed on the water, especially at night to use the night to hide the whereabouts, once the sudden attack, and the city Liu Qingfu army to a combination of inside and outside, Even if the soldiers and horses under his command are all elite, it is inevitable that he will not panic, and if he is defeated, he will be embarrassed this time!
Someone came, and the heral issued a summons to reward Wang Quan and the soldiers of the navy, and send this good news back to the capital as soon as possible, and ask for merit for Wang Quan and the navy! In addition, don't forget to send this news to Liu Qingfu in the city by the way, and tell them not to have high hopes for Li Quan's army to come to help, most of their reinforcements have become prisoners of the imperial court at this time, and I advise them to be more knowledgeable, and it is better to put down their weapons and surrender as soon as possible! Saved his life in vain! Gao Huaiyuan ordered with a smile on his face.
So some people immediately followed his instructions, wrote the news on the silk silk, tied it to some carved arrows, and shot it into the county seat of Baoying, and sent some loud voices to shout outside the city, and continued to engage in their tactics of attacking the heart.
The defenders in the city soon got the news, when there was an uproar, since they were surrounded in Baoying County, they were burned by the Song army's artillery for many days, and they were in a panic, most of them still imagined in their hearts that Li Quan would send troops to rescue them as soon as possible, but when they learned that the reinforcements were all gone, the hearts of the soldiers in the city fell to the bottom, and some people began to ponder the problem of retreat.
In fact, Li Quan's army is not really as monolithic as they advertise, the composition of Li Quan's army is destined to be not a highly unified military organization like the Song army, after Li Quan made a fortune over the years, he gathered a lot of scattered troops in the Jingdong area, speaking of which hundreds of thousands of troops under his command, but in fact, it is composed of a number of different forces, several of which are relatively large such as Guoanyong, Yan Tong, Xing De, Shi Qing and others were some warlords of the loyal and righteous army before, and later because of Li Quan's great power, and attached to Li Quan's hands, but these people are not in harmony, this is the biggest problem in Li Quan's army, he is now known as 200,000 troops, but the real mobilization of soldiers and horses, in fact, the total number is only about 70,000 or 80,000, and these people have to be stationed in Yancheng, Shuyang, Xuzhou, Huaibei and other places respectively, to maintain his territory, so the number of soldiers and horses gathered in Chuzhou this time seems to be a lot, but many of them are the old department of these people, the people's hearts are not aligned, many of them have their own accounts in their hearts, each is playing their own ideas.
At the same time, many of the soldiers in Li Quan's army were forcibly coerced into the army, these people had been oppressed by the Jin people before, and if they were allowed to beat the Jin soldiers, they would be quite happy, but many of them thought that they were the remnants of the Song people, and they were not willing to really tear their faces with the Song army and beat them to the death.
As soon as the Song army started the war this time, it hyped up that it would give preferential treatment to the surrendered army, and it was also said everywhere that these soldiers under Li Quan's command would put down their weapons and surrender to sincerity, and not be so cannibalistic, such a propaganda offensive could not be ignored, which further aggravated the unstable factors in Li Quan's army.
When the northern army in Baoying County learned that the reinforcements were over, the army's heart suddenly became dissipated, when the Song army put on a posture outside the city to attack the city, there were obviously not many people who took the initiative to go to the city to defend the city, many people were unwilling to release arrows outside the city, and even privately discussed simply surrendering and pulling down, and the province was wronged by the Song army here to be killed.
When Liu Qingfu learned the news, he was also very annoyed, knowing that this time Baoying County was over, and if he persisted, he would not be able to wait for Li Quan's reinforcements, and now he could only rely on himself, either to defend Baoying County and fight with the Song army here to break the net, or to hurry up and prepare to break out, and run back to Chuzhou as many people as he could.
He must choose one of these two roads, think about the way Li Quan has treated him over the years, Liu Qingfu is full of complaints, for a Li Fu, Li Quan has put him in the cabinet over the years, and Liu Qingfu is really a little unhappy to work hard for Li Quan here, but he can't surrender to the Song army, he launched the Chuzhou Mutiny was carried out by him, and Xu Guo died in his hands when Huaidong made Xu Guo, and he also killed a lot of officials of the Song court at that time, and the Southern Song court would not spare him, and now although he wants to fight to the death with the Song army here, but he is willing, it does not mean that the people under him are willing, he knows very well what his soldiers and generals are thinking about in their hearts, if they persist for a few more days, I am afraid that his subordinates will mutiny, so after thinking about it, Liu Qingfu finally decided to break through, and the province was caught in an urn here.
After thinking about this matter, Liu Qingfu was no longer lazy, and immediately recruited all his generals to the county government of Baoying County, and informed these subordinates of his intentions.
These people actually wanted to run away for a long time, Baoying County was besieged by so many Song troops, and it was obvious that they couldn't hold out for long, and now they can be regarded as having completed the task assigned to them by Li Quan, and the Song army has been here for several days, which can be regarded as worthy of Li Quan, and it is unwise to continue to wait here for death.
So these leaders of Liu Qingfu's subordinates nodded their heads in agreement, and Zhang Luo made plans on how to break through.
At present, only the north gate has not been besieged by the Song army, and a large number of Song troops are stationed at the east, west and south gates, and it is not easy to stand out, so everyone is basically the same, and they all require to break through the north gate overnight and quickly escape back to Chuzhou.
Only Liu Qingfu finally shook his head and denied their suggestion, and said to them with a wry smile: No, we must not break through from the north gate, you don't know the thoughts of the Song army commander outside the city, the Song army is setting up a suspicious array for us and luring us to take the bait! The north gate seems to be a living gate, in fact, if my prediction is right, the most elite soldiers and horses of the Song army have already been stationed outside the city, just waiting for us to leave from there, to put it bluntly, there is a fire pit, just wait for us to jump down by ourselves!
Therefore, we must not take the north gate to break through, I am determined to go from the east gate, we can not go back to Chuzhou, on the road to Chuzhou, there will be an ambush of the Song army, even if we wait for the breakthrough out of the city successfully, it will be difficult to return to Chuzhou in the end, so I decided to take the east gate, after breaking out, retreat in the direction of Yancheng, as long as we get to Yancheng, there are still 20,000 our army, we merge together, we have the power to fight with the Song army, I don't know what you think?
Immediately, someone exclaimed: How good is this! The Song army at the East Gate is very elite, can we break out of the encirclement if we rush out like this?
Might as well! If we are prepared to attack the enemy unprepared, the enemy will be caught off guard, so we just need to rush out in one go! I didn't expect that we would choose this direction to break through, but there was a great possibility of success! Liu Qingfu tried his best to be as calm as possible to cheer up the people under him.
Everyone seemed to be reasonable when they heard Liu Qingfu's words, thinking that it might indeed be the case, so they finally nodded and agreed.
Liu Qingfu also specially instructed them not to say anything about the breakout, so as not to disturb the morale of the army at this time, and everyone also agreed, and after looking at the day, Liu Qingfu set the time for the breakout the next night.
But Gao Huaiyuan didn't seem to plan to give Liu Qingfu this opportunity, and after learning the news that the navy had defeated Li Quan's navy in Gaoyou Lake, Gao Huaiyuan finally decided to attack Baoying County.
Before noon that day, a large number of Song troops lined up outside the city, and after a few horns and cannons, the Song army launched a fierce attack on Baoying County under the cover of fierce artillery outside the city.
In the past few days, the soldiers and generals of the Song army have a very smooth life, sitting outside the city every day when they are full, watching the artillery on their side as if watching a big drama all the time towards Baoying County, smashing the northern army is embarrassed, their job is to feint from time to time, not to let the northern army in the city stop, these days, many people feel that they seem to have eaten a circle, when today again out of the camp array, one by one Song army soldiers are fierce and fierce, they have already been eager to try.
When the order for the general attack was issued, these soldiers and utility officers immediately dressed up neatly, roared in unison, and then immediately rushed towards Baoying County in great strides.